Syndicate: ART OF WORK

[rachel baker <rachel@irational.org>]

ART OF WORK - lecture and workshop

speaker : Rachel Baker of *bakersimonson and sons* - Human Resource
Managment Consultants

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The logic of HR is exemplified in new strategies in office architecture.
The HR consultant advises that workplace architecture caters for
purposefully 'informal' spaces like the corridor leading up to the
coffee machine area. This is  where groups of employees from other
divisions are most likely to congregate and dicuss in a spontaneous
way. "We are creating more open spaces for teams where people can
interact in an impromptu fashion", boasts a company personnel manager.
Management has caught on to the idea that gossiping and aimless
hanging around constitute some of the most creative and inspirational
moments for a human being. Ideas and intellectual capital must be optimised
and  all personal, autonomous creativity utilised in the
service of maximum financial capital and profit.

ART OF WORK workshops

Art Of Work is a workshop designed to encourage a reversal of the Human
Resource Management logic - instead of harnessing  idle creativity and play
for productivity at the workplace, exploit the workplace in the service of
useless artmaking.

i.e  - 'Work Resource Mismanagement for Humans'

WRM encourages employees to utilise work resources i.e databases, reports,
memos, franking machines, tape + video recordings, and so on, taking them
out of the workplace and redirecting them into other realms


"keep work and life seperate"

Workshop N0.1 ---- Sunday 19th April ---- Backspace
                                          Clink St
			                  London Bridge
				          Tel 0171 234 0804

Workshop NO.2 ---- Friday 24th April ---- Cybercircus
 					  LoveBytes Festival
					  Sheffield

Workshop N0.3 ---- Sunday 10th  May ---- Backspace
                                         Clink St
			                 London Bridge
				         Tel 0171 234 0804


Workshop NO.4 ---- Friday  22nd May  ---- Viper Festival
				          Lucerne

http://www.irational.org/tm/art_of_work

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